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TUNA
Definition of TUNA
noun
Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from United States Spanish tuna, alteration of Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TUNA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TUNA starts with T and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ANTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TUNA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found TUNA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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